Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE), College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar.
World Innovation Summit for Health, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar.
Bioethics. 2023 May;37(4):326-330. doi: 10.1111/bioe.13154. Epub 2023 Mar 14.
In 2022, the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE) and the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) submitted a proposal to host the 17th edition of the World Congress of Bioethics. After announcing that the CILE-WISH proposal was the winning bid, concerns were raised by bioethicists based in Europe and the USA. To address these concerns, the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) developed a dedicated FAQ section, in coordination with the host institutions, for the first time in IAB history. One-to-one communication ensued and individual responses were shared with these colleagues. As a continuation of this conversation, we (CILE Acting Director, WISH Research Fellow and Head of Content, and WISH CEO) address the concerns raised in the Letter-to-the-Editor of Bioethics by Graaf et al. As we support the call to revisit some contentious issues within the global community of bioethicists, we maintain that this should be based on meticulously discussed, informed, consistent and equitable criteria. We also argue that mutual learning from diverse cultures and moral traditions is the optimal way for our scholarly community to be truly global and to eschew the flaws ensuing from ethnocentric discourses.
2022 年，伊斯兰教法与伦理研究中心（CILE）和世界卫生创新峰会（WISH）提交了主办第 17 届世界生命伦理学大会的提案。在宣布 CILE-WISH 的提案获得通过后，来自欧洲和美国的生命伦理学家提出了担忧。为了解决这些担忧，国际生命伦理学会（IAB）首次与主办机构合作，专门为该提案创建了常见问题解答部分。随后进行了一对一的沟通，并与这些同事分享了个人回复。作为此次对话的延续，我们（CILE 代理主任、WISH 研究员和内容负责人以及 WISH 首席执行官）回应了 Graaf 等人在《生物伦理学》的致编辑信中提出的关切。我们支持重新审视全球生命伦理学家群体内部的一些有争议的问题，但我们坚持认为，这应该基于精心讨论、知情、一致和公平的标准。我们还认为，从不同的文化和道德传统中相互学习是我们的学术共同体真正走向全球化并避免产生种族中心主义话语所带来的缺陷的最佳方式。
